American Pop History Background - Zhenye Huo

USA Pop Culture
America! The United States of America. The land of freedom and also the birthplace of some of the most influential figures ever existed on this planet. USA is the main dominance of culture across the world. From Hollywood movies to Top 100 billboard music charts. It appears as though there is this circulation a specific domain or style around the world where USA is the center of this solar system of culture. 

Communism vs Capitalism

It appears as if this highly influential, almost contagious spread of culture begun after World War 2. When USA stepped into the spotlight in the world stage as a dominant power. Initially the US utilized the spread of culture as a mean of propaganda during the cold war to steer the world from Communism, in other words stop the Domino Effect. After the cold war however, US continued its influence on the world through media and music. 

Influences

If we were to trace back to a couple of centuries ago. All the way back to the days of inequality, slavery, social imbalance etc. We can discover that in terms of music, the dominant so called "American Pop music" were heavily influenced by and consisted elements from African music. Undoubtedly there are also some components of European style of music, surprisingly the indigenous Indians also has a contribution to shape the sort of music in which Americans have created.